US Patent Issued to Wi-LAN on July 21 for "Efficient and consistent wireless downlink channel configuration" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,047, issued on July 21, was assigned to Wi-LAN Inc. (Ottawa).

"Efficient and consistent wireless downlink channel configuration" was invented by Gene Marsh (San Diego), Srikanth Gummadi (Sainikpuri, India), William Burchill (San Diego) and Michael Wengler (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wireless communication including a base station transmitting a preamble including information indicating a sector identifier and an antenna port value. The base station further transmits a pilot sequence, wherein the pilot sequence and the location of the pilot sequence are based on the sector identifier and on the antenna port v...